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Plans for cliff-top caravan bar scrapped after locals speak out

The bar would have operated out of an Airstream caravan

by Chris Jefferies

Controversial plans for a setting up a bar in an Airstream caravan on the top of a cliff have had to be abandoned after 40 local residents voiced their objections.

The owners of the Atlantic House Hotel at New Polzeath in Cornwall had planned to set up the temporary bar and beer garden, but were forced to pull out at the eleventh hour, the Cornish Guardian reports.

Local opposition mainly focused on the fact that the plot in question was registered as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Other objections included the health and safety implications of allowing people to drink alcohol so near a cliff edge and the impact that regular visits from drunken revellers could have on the area and the wider environment.

Had the proposals been voted through, then the makeshift venue would have been able to sell alcohol on this spot from 11am to 10pm every day until the end of October.

It was hoped that visitors would be allowed to enjoy a drink in the classic silver Airstream caravan, while enjoying the view, with additional picnic benches included as part of a fenced-off area.

The u-turn was so late that the tourer had even been delivered to the site opposite Atlantic Terrace, which was going to be called the Doom Bar.

Polzeath resident and campaigner Diana Millington, told the local paper: “This is amazing news. It shows the hotel does have a concern for the local people.”

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